Banana Moments Newsletter

Features of Banana Moments: Family Business Quarterly — Unique, original content

A. From the Editor – each quarter Joanna features a book that offers insight and perspective helpful for dealing with the modern challenges of family business today. The books selected have practical, incisive value for the new demands of running a household and leading children into adulthood. They include works from different arenas including business, science, psychology, social science, faith, and parenting.

For Examples of books featured in past Banana Moments, go to “Bookshelf”.

B. Stories of how families have overcome crises — Real stories of parents and families who have overcome adversity. Some examples include:

Examples:

A 9-year-old and his family who triumphed over a deadly cancer.

A mother’s story of her teenager’s fall into drug addiction and recovery.

D. Fundamentals for informed and well-connected thought leadership based upon field work and research

(Sample topics)

The law and parenting

Texting

Social media (Facebook)

Cyber bullying

Video games

Sex and pornography

Financial literacy

Mentoring digital natives

Life lessons from legendary athletes like Dan Bunz

When drug culture meets the network culture

Healthy use of cyber technology

Overcoming blind spots about our children

Legislation impacting family decisions

Body Image

Emotional intelligence

Faith and forgiveness

E. Setting a pace.

Why a quarterly publication?

Rhythm is important.

In this fast paced, Internet-powered, instant, “I’m connected everywhere” world, we need to set a pace for thought leadership so we can steer our own ships as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a nation.

The quarterly pace and unique content is designed to help quell anxiety in this fast paced world, encourage parents to take time to reflect and find their bearing in truth, with material that is practical, relevant and encouraging. Aligning our perspectives with truth inspires the confidence and compassion needed to truly relate to our children and then lead them.

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The objective of Banana Moments (click here to receive updates) is to help parents rise above the noise and the fray of the daily, weekly, monthly press of information and life’s stresses of family business. Banana Moments offers insights and inspiration to reinforce your own family values and help you lead children in this network culture that pressures all of us with things that don’t really matter and are largely not true.

About Joanna Jullien

Joanna (jullien@surewest.net) and her husband have raised two sons in Roseville, CA. She has a degree from U.C. Berkeley in Social Anthropology (corporate culture). Her honors thesis was awarded the Kroeber Prize and funding from National Science Foundation grant. Joanna writes to help parents with the modern-day leadership challenges of raising children. She is a contributing writer for The Granite Bay View, the Press Tribune, the Sacramento Examiner, and editor of Banana Moments.